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The person who made that stock was a real artist.

Thank you all I am glad for the nice comments! I will surely take care of her in the best way. I will be posting complete pictures of the gun in 2-3 weeks,just finishing the wood and gonna fix the ejectors.

All the best,

Kemal

So you stocked it yourself Kem?....
I guess I missed that in my "Bad Grain" rant, lol... my hat is off to you mate.
It must be a wonderful to see the change from a really nice bit of wood into an incredibly beautiful stock , & all done with your own fair hands...totally sweet
It must be mind blowing when you start to get it wet, n the colours start to really show n deepen...I changed my mind on that gold drop, it looks just lovely , love that long cheek.
The comment on the horn being slippery might be true..if so , how would you fix that?...add a leather face to the butt?, but would it be more slippery than a wood one?...lettuce know how she shoots
Once again, that gun looks superb mate
cheers
franc

Nice piece of wood that became a magnificent stock. Layout looks to me to be near perfect, but it's frequently hard to see grain flow in highly figured wood.

Franc Otte, thanks mate i really appreciate your comments . I already fixed the horn but, the checkering on the but is finished the same that would be on wood.The wood still has some small dots that needs to be filled. It will surely be magnificient when its finished

All the best,

Kemal

Kem,

The more I look at that wood, and the work you have done, the better I like it and the more impressed I am with the job you have done.

I'm long past doing my own stocking but I still keep an eye out for nice stock blanks at a good price. I usually have a few blanks waiting the right gun.

Here in the USA my stock work is done by Macon Gunstocks. Here are pictures of a Horizon (Garbi) SLNE I had them restock to my measure:

It is a really beautiful piece of wood. It will be weak due to the grain , but keep the screws tight and don't drop it and you should be fine.

Pete the Wood Dude

No offense intended, but you are mistaking figure for grain. Wood grain is straight through the wrist in that stock.It's a rift sawn piece of Claro (Juglans hindsii) about one blank off of quarter sawn. It's a highly figured piece of wood, and the actual grain is very hard to see - especially in pictures.

Here is another one where the grain is next to impossible to see due to the figure:



That's from a quarter sawn Turkish walnut (Juglans regia) stock blank, now a stock on an Ugartechea model 41 in .410.

Here is another one, also a piece of Regia. Grain just cannot be seen. I had to look at the edges and sides of the blank to get an idea of grain flow (which is actually dead straight from head to butt). This blank became the stock of a Martin Ugarteburu model 115.







At first glance that looks like a horrible piece of wood with no acceptable layout. But what we are seeing is mineralization that is visually distorted by the medullary rays. The actual grain structure is completely hidden.

Kyrie, thats a beautiful gun u have Thanks for your kind words mate My dad used to import walnut blanks from Turkey 20 years ago. We had many blanks of this quality which me and dad stocked them for our own guns. This one i was saving for something special. I bought this Army&Navy for a very cheap price from a guy which definetely had no idea what he was holding. When i finish my work on it i will post the pictures. Generally i stock the guns with traditional wood teardrop but for this one i had the feeling of the gold tdrop which i think it fitted perfectly. We are not working big time in my country,just making action work and small repairs and stocking shotguns. I am glad you liked the work

All the best,

Kemal